Re: XS Restore UI and account aliasing are ready for testing...

2009-04-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 21:26, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Over the last few days^Wweeks I have been trying to finish off the 'restore' side of our backup infrastructure, as well as the account aliasing needed to handle the replaced laptop scenario. I've just pushed the

Re: Debugging booting problems with F9 on SD card...

2009-04-15 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Martin, What would it take to move the next XS Server release to either F10 or F11 as F9 will be EOL as soon as F11 comes out in a month or so (one month after F11 is out F9 will be EOL). Peter On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On the mission

Re: Debugging booting problems with F9 on SD card...

2009-04-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: What would it take to move the next XS Server release to either F10 or F11 as F9 will be EOL as soon as F11 comes out in a month or so (one month after F11 is out F9 will be EOL). It's a bit of a recurring question. I

Re: XS Restore UI and account aliasing are ready for testing...

2009-04-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: how is this going? I think Paraguay were interested in deploying backups, are they going to use this code or further development is needed by them? Any other deployments in sight? That's done, and I'm working on a few

Re: [Server-devel] XS Restore UI and account aliasing are ready for testing...

2009-04-15 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/4/15 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org: Hi Martin, how is this going? I think Paraguay were interested in deploying backups, are they going to use this code or further development is needed by them? Any other deployments in sight? The current interest from Paraguay is a simple way to do

Re: [Server-devel] Debugging booting problems with F9 on SD card...

2009-04-15 Thread Peter Robinson
What would it take to move the next XS Server release to either F10 or F11 as F9 will be EOL as soon as F11 comes out in a month or so (one month after F11 is out F9 will be EOL). It's a bit of a recurring question. I am swamped with feature development for a while. My hope is to port to F11

Re: Debugging booting problems with F9 on SD card...

2009-04-15 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: What would it take to move the next XS Server release to either F10 or F11 as F9 will be EOL as soon as F11 comes out in a month or so

Re: Debugging booting problems with F9 on SD card...

2009-04-15 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Sameer Verma wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: What would it take to move the next XS Server release to either F10 or F11 as F9 will be

Re: [Server-devel] Booting F9 kernels on XO...

2009-04-15 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/4/15 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com:  - dsd has a nice fixup F9 for XO script described here   http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2008/08/regular-linux-desktops-on-the-xo/ The script builds a custom 2.6.25 which I think pulls in a few additional patches (sound, etc),

Re: Debugging booting problems with F9 on SD card...

2009-04-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg g...@redhat.com wrote: Choose CentOS.  The workflow for managing development atop Centos and Fedora are essentially the same. That's the plan for the XS (I'm sure gregdek knows it, but it's good to broadcast the msg) :-) In the meantime,

Re: Debugging booting problems with F9 on SD card...

2009-04-15 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg g...@redhat.com wrote: Choose CentOS.  The workflow for managing development atop Centos and Fedora are essentially the same. That's the plan for the XS (I'm sure gregdek knows it, but it's good

Re: [Server-devel] Booting F9 kernels on XO...

2009-04-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: What's the problem? My custom initramfs definitely boots on my XO. Also the stock F9 one did too, but it landed a lot of errors during boot (which took several seconds to enumerate). I don't doubt it boots in yours, but it

Re: Debugging booting problems with F9 on SD card...

2009-04-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg g...@redhat.com wrote: Is there a bug I can herd people towards? Not a bug as such, as I haven't narrowed down steps to repro, but here's the start of the relevant threads: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2009-April/003209.html

Announcing OFW Q2E41

2009-04-15 Thread Mitch Bradley
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e41 This release is the culmination of a series of mini-releases that change the boot order when the system is in the factory, so that the manufacturing test operating system image will boot even if an SD card is inserted during production steps.

Re: Debugging booting problems with F9 on SD card...

2009-04-15 Thread Peter Robinson
Choose CentOS.  The workflow for managing development atop Centos and Fedora are essentially the same. I have no doubt about it, and I've read that going forward that is the plan for XS. The reason I originally asked the question about what we need to move it forward to F11 was so that we can

Re: [Server-devel] XS Restore UI and account aliasing are ready for testing...

2009-04-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 21:26, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Over the last few days^Wweeks I have been trying to finish off the 'restore' side of our backup infrastructure, as well as the account aliasing needed to handle the replaced laptop scenario. I've just pushed the

Re: [Server-devel] Booting F9 kernels on XO...

2009-04-15 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Summary:  - F9 kernels don't boot on the XO from an SD card -- even if we get the initrd to have the right modules, the initrd loads the modules, creates the device nodes, and yet fails to mount /dev/root --

Re: [Server-devel] Booting F9 kernels on XO...

2009-04-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Josh Boyer jwbo...@gmail.com wrote: Why are you focusing on F9?  There was a large push to get F10 working Sorry! I mis-addressed the email, was supposed to be to fedora-olpc-list. Your question is a valid, and a bit of a FAQ - reply here:

Re: [Server-devel] XS Restore UI and account aliasing are ready for testing...

2009-04-15 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/4/15 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org: Hi Martin, how is this going? I think Paraguay were interested in deploying backups, are they going to use this code or further development is needed by them? Any other deployments in sight? The current interest from Paraguay is a simple way to do

Re: [Server-devel] Gadget on XS

2009-04-15 Thread Dave Bauer
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Guillaume Desmottes guillaume.desmot...@collabora.co.uk wrote: Le vendredi 03 avril 2009 à 10:40 -0400, Dave Bauer a écrit : AHA! gadget.config. Can we add the startup and gadget.config to the README? I didn't realise this file was not documented,

Re: [Server-devel] Debugging booting problems with F9 on SD card...

2009-04-15 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg g...@redhat.com wrote: Choose CentOS.  The workflow for managing development atop Centos and Fedora are essentially the same. That's the plan for the XS (I'm sure gregdek knows it, but it's good

Re: [Server-devel] Booting F9 kernels on XO...

2009-04-15 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 12:14 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: 2009/4/15 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: - dsd has a nice fixup F9 for XO script described here http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2008/08/regular-linux-desktops-on-the-xo/ The script builds a custom 2.6.25

Re: [Server-devel] Booting F9 kernels on XO...

2009-04-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote:  - Build a kernel exactly like Fedora 9 kernels, but with the mmc drivers built statically. This is what I am am doing right now, following the nice guide at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel Martin: what